Exam 11: Psychological Aspects of Young and Middle Adulthood

One of the axioms of Glasser's choice theory includes a _____ circle in which the two people in conflict must reach a compromise on their conflict.

Psychologists Salovey and Mayer coined the term _____ intelligence referring to the ability to recognize and deal with one's own feeling as well as the feelings of others.

According to Peck,emotional flexibility is the capacity to shift emotional investments from one activity to another and from one person to another.

Quaalude is classified as a:

Summarize Levinson's theories of life structure,life eras,and transitions.

Which of the following is true:

What are Peck's four psychological advances critical to successful adjustment in middle adulthood?

Explain the right brain and the left brain,and the functions of both.

Erik Erikson theorizes that middle-aged adults face the developmental crisis of developing generativity or stagnation. Describe generativity and stagnation,and compare how life is different for those who achieve generativity and those who are stagnant.

Human _____ is similar to the instinct in dogs that makes them wary upon seeing a bear in the wild-even when they have never seen a bear before.

Explain neuro-linguistic programming.

Researchers have found that children who were exposed to cocaine before birth have relatively small long-term effects.

According to Wegscheider,a family member other than the chemically dependent person is often blamed for the problem. The blamed person is the:

Peyote is classified as a:

Teachers often use the following space zone:

Which of the following room colors have been found to have a calming effect.

Heroin is classified as a:

In applying Levinson's theories to women,women have been found to:

The following is true:

_____ is unhealthy behavior learned amid chaos,when a person is so trapped by a loved one's addiction that they lose their own identity due to the trauma created by the addict.